A CIGAR butt belonging to Winston Churchill from his final day at No10 Downing Street is set to fetch £300 when it goes under the hammer at auction on Wednesday.

The cigar isn't the only item on auction, as a photograph and cast are also going

The two inch long stub belonging to the former Prime Minister was retrieved from an ashtray by civil servant George Henry Townsend as Churchill left Downing Street for the second time on April 6, 1955.

The half-smoked cigar is going on sale just a week after British actor Gary Oldman won the best actor Oscar for portraying the wartime leader in The Darkest Hour.